What Does It Mean to Last for Eternity?

How could we suppress all eternity without establishing ten thousand paths?!

The voice drifted slowly past the white-haired old man's ears, and the anger in his eyes actually ebbed, a rare sight.

The high-minded ambition of the young always left the old with complicated feelings.

Just like now.

He gazed at Chen Yan from afar, as though a bitter ache were twisting through the furrows of his wrinkles.

He was too old. He had lived too long.

He thought back over his life.

At one hundred, at one thousand, perhaps he had still been young.

Twenty was too young—far too young.

He should have forgotten it long ago.

But the instant Chen Yan's words rang out, it was as though time had turned back to those days.

Back then,

the sky belonging to the Human Race had been swallowed by endless darkness.

Malice had devoured living things, while the Ancient Gods looked on indifferently at the Human World.

Over the course of a century,

the Human Race had dwindled from a population of more than four hundred million to a final thirty million.

More than seventy percent of those thirty million were Blood-tainted Humans.

What was a Blood-tainted Human?

Someone whose body had been warped beyond recognition after generations of erosion by Malice.

They were much like the malignant creatures of today.

By all rights, the Human Race should have gone extinct in such an age.

Amid their despair, countless people suddenly understood why the Human Race had not yet perished.

Humans were like pigs and sheep penned up for slaughter, dying and falling one by one in ignorance and bewilderment.

Humans were different from animals.

Humans had desires, intelligence, and despair.

In Its eyes, humans were ants that knew how to put on a show.

It enjoyed draining away